Word In Your Ear

A podcast by Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold

Categories:

Music

796 Episodes

  1. Billy Sloan, the man who interviewed Grace Jones in a bath

    Published: 11/2/2023

  2. The greatest guitarist & the strange tale of Mike Raven - plus a leaked Radio One memo!

    Published: 10/30/2023

  3. Pin-Ups’ 50th, Morrissey The Eternal Teenager and what the Stones should be writing songs about

    Published: 10/23/2023

  4. The “gangsterish” charm of Andrew Loog Oldham and Immediate Records, by Simon Spence

    Published: 10/21/2023

  5. Denmark Street, London's Tin Pan Alley, where the Sex Pistols met Pink Floyd and a luverly bunch of coconuts, by Peter Watts

    Published: 10/19/2023

  6. Madonna’s karaoke show, albums that sound their covers and whatever happened to protest music?

    Published: 10/17/2023

  7. Jarvis v Jacko and why drummers are like goalkeepers. Let Pulp’s Nick Banks be your guide

    Published: 10/12/2023

  8. Smoking on album sleeves, Smash Hits The Musical and records you own but have never played

    Published: 10/9/2023

  9. Echo & the Bunnymen, why the rock press were “divs” and the secret of good hair by Will Sergeant

    Published: 10/8/2023

  10. An Insider’s Guide To Goth by Cathi Unsworth (via Cruella De Vil and the Cure)

    Published: 10/4/2023

  11. Nick Drake – a whole new perspective by Richard Morton Jack

    Published: 10/3/2023

  12. Gary Numan, unlikely sex symbols and U2’s £1,000 night in the desert

    Published: 10/2/2023

  13. Does Gary Numan regret throwing the glo-stick that hit David Bowie?

    Published: 10/1/2023

  14. Why a sumptuous new book about the Island label is “like entering the record shop of your dreams”.

    Published: 9/27/2023

  15. Mojo’s 30th birthday plus bands whose t-shirts you’d wear even if you didn’t have any of their records

    Published: 9/25/2023

  16. The “unknown woman” in McCartney’s photos, the Human League and a new U2 game

    Published: 9/18/2023

  17. Pulitzer Prize winner David Remnick takes the long view of Bruce Springsteen, Aretha Franklin, Macca and more

    Published: 9/17/2023

  18. The Stones return, rock’n’roll marriages and Freddie’s 50 kimonos

    Published: 9/12/2023

  19. Plaid shirts? Brown ale? A smoke-stained pub rock special with Simon Matthews

    Published: 9/6/2023

  20. What Kevin Armstrong learnt as the sideman for Bowie, McCartney, Morrissey, Sinead and Iggy Pop

    Published: 9/5/2023

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Mark Ellen and David Hepworth have been talking about and writing about music together and individually for a collective eighty years in magazines like Smash Hits, Mojo and The Word and on radio and TV programmes like "Rock On", "Whistle Test" and VH-1.Over thirteen years ago, when working on the late magazine The Word, they began producing podcasts. Some listeners have been kind enough to say these have been very special to them. When the magazine folded in 2012 they kept the spirit of those podcasts alive in regular Word In Your Ear evenings in which they spoke to musicians and authors in front of an audience. Over these years they've produced hundreds of hours of material. As of the Current Unpleasantness of 2020, they've produced yet hundreds of hours more with a little help from guests kind enough to digitally show them around their attics such as Danny Baker, Andy Partridge, Sir Tim Rice and Mark Lewisohn. For the full span of the Word In Your Ear world, visit wiyelondon.com. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.